No one has enough money to afford ACA

Published: Friday, October 25, 2013 at 08:30 PM.

Now that enough elephants in D.C. have finally caved to the donkeys for the umpteenth time, everyone can enjoy a 90-day reprieve from the “how can we spend some more” caterwauling coming from D.C.

Here’s a hypothetical: We are all about to get $30,000 cash, but we must spend some or all of it on a brand new car.

A conservative spender would say, alright, I’ll go get a $15,000 car and keep the change. A liberal spender would buy a $30,000 car.

You know what a member of Congress would do with that $30,000? They would use it as a down payment and then borrow $30,000 more from China to get a Corvette.

My point is that conservatism can exist in either the Democrat or Republican Party, because the only issue is how much of, and on what, the money gets spent. It is extremely rare to find a conservative member of the Democratic Party and now the GOP has decided to exclude conservatives, too (Tea Party).

I don’t know anything about the Tea Party other than it came into existence in 2010 because a number of establishment Republicans decided that they had built such successful careers as kow-towing political sissies that they no longer needed to trifle with listening to their constituents.

Now that enough elephants in D.C. have finally caved to the donkeys for the umpteenth time, everyone can enjoy a 90-day reprieve from the “how can we spend some more” caterwauling coming from D.C.

Here’s a hypothetical: We are all about to get $30,000 cash, but we must spend some or all of it on a brand new car.

A conservative spender would say, alright, I’ll go get a $15,000 car and keep the change. A liberal spender would buy a $30,000 car.

You know what a member of Congress would do with that $30,000? They would use it as a down payment and then borrow $30,000 more from China to get a Corvette.

My point is that conservatism can exist in either the Democrat or Republican Party, because the only issue is how much of, and on what, the money gets spent. It is extremely rare to find a conservative member of the Democratic Party and now the GOP has decided to exclude conservatives, too (Tea Party).

I don’t know anything about the Tea Party other than it came into existence in 2010 because a number of establishment Republicans decided that they had built such successful careers as kow-towing political sissies that they no longer needed to trifle with listening to their constituents.

Pay attention, Tea Party, whoever you are, and all potential GOP donors: Whoever gave up on repealing the inappropriately named “Affordable Care Act” — and I believe there were 87 of them — should not be re-elected or even re-nominated in next year’s midterms.

And may I remind the Democrats once again that loyalty to their party is one thing, but everyone votes with their wallets, and those wallets are going to be much lighter come January 2014.

If you are among the many people who have been unable to purchase health insurance (which is mandatory) because the government’s website is broken, the IRS will not be relieving you of your obligation to pay them over and above what it already takes out of your paycheck. The fine nobody is willing to tell anyone is whichever is more: $95 or 1 percent of household income, so it includes any form of money that comes into a residence.

Talk-show hosts only say the fine “starts at $95,” but they never mention the “or 1 percent of household income.”

So pay attention when you see how much of a chunk disappears from your income tax refund and recognize that the ACA is profoundly unfair. Then make sure you don’t re-elect the people who voted for it.

This law will negatively affect everyone, and we should not vote for anyone whose mission is anything short of repeal.